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  1. Hello, 20 year old Design student here from the UK who has recently completed a project of gaming immersion. I'm just offering us to take a step back here and perhaps suggest some preliminary solutions to the issue of our technology. Although my speculations cannot parallel the fictional immersion of SAO, It is important to do what we can with what we have in order to move forward. There is a lot of talk of re-writing brainwaves, or intercepting the nervous system, it is great to speculate these things but as of yet the limitations are too extreme to apply to a gaming environment. Let's look at it this way, if such technology was currently existent/affordable we would be using it medically as a standard procedure. I say this as my mother has had a damaged nerves in her brain for 30 years and there is no such machine to help. HOWEVER, the brain is easily tricked and even with the advances of the Oculus Rift technology I feel over the next few years there will be movement towards a total immersion experience. I would very much so want to be apart of this movement. My research has revealed that a feeling of total immersion in theory could be currently applied visually and somatically(=touch). This, however would require a certain isolation from 'the real'. In the 1970s a psychological experiment revealed that a total deduction of your sense sends you insane after extended periods of time causing the brain to create it's own visions /sounds and sensations. (one subject could feel herself getting hit with bb-gun bullets, another subject reported he could see nothing but dogs) Source- http://preview.tinyurl.com/8j236c3 Additionally, a less brutal approach to psychology and the senses in the brain can simply be seen with exercises like this fake-hand trick. This is important knowledge! If the brain can create it's own stimuli then it is possible to suggest that we need to take a slight psychological approach to our Nerve Gear. Of course, it is now illegal in most countries to conduct experiments like these again, however similar and more user-friendly tests need to be conducted using perhaps a powerful Oculus Rift, clothing articles that soften your senses in reality and a strongly immersive game. With A strong Visual and Audial input it could theoretically suggest we can control the brains capacity to create it's own stimuli. Minimally this could create a sensation of touch, which is more than what we currently have, simulated smell and taste will naturally be incredibly harder to achieve. --- Again apologies if this seems disheartening in the sense of the real thing, I only wish to offer possible steps forward from where we currently are. I truly want to see this happen in my lifetime. I wonder if anyone even read all of this haha! Thanks, Z
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